Deepika Menon Assistant Professor
PH.D., CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION, SCIENCE EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA, 2015
M.ED., SCIENCE EDUCATION, PUNJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH, INDIA, 2007
M.SC., PHYSICS, GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY, PUNJAB, INDIA, 2002
B.SC., PHYSICS WITH HONORS, REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UTKAL UNIVERSITY, BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, 2000
B.ED., SPECIALIZATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION (MIDDLE SCHOOL CERTIFICATION), (4-YEAR INTEGRATED COURSE), 2000
Dr. Deepika Menon is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education (TLTE) housed in the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining TLTE, Dr. Menon was a faculty member in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University, Maryland.
Grounded by issues related to reforms in teacher education, Dr. Menon’s research focuses on preservice and in-service science teacher education. She is particularly interested in investigating course-related factors that support the development of preservice elementary teacher self-efficacy and identity within the elementary science teacher preparation programs, and the intersection of constructs such as science teaching self-efficacy and science attitudes and their role in science teacher identity development. Dr. Menon’s current research and teaching projects focus on mobile technologies in science education across educational settings. Dr. Menon’s work has published her work in several top-tier science education journals.
Scholarship (selected recent publications)
Menon, D., Cheng, D., Ngugi, W. R. (2023). Investigating Preservice Secondary Teachers’ Understanding and Enactment of the Standards-based Practices during Microteaching. Journal for STEM Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41979-023-00093-x
Menon, D., ^Al Shorman, D. A., Cox, D & Thomas, A. (2023). Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Integrated STEM Teaching Self-efficacy. Educational Sciences, 13(5). 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13050529
McNeal, P. M., Menon, D., ^Al Shorman, D. A., & *Schaefer, P. G. (2023). Drawing as a Tool: Investigating Undergraduate Conceptions of Earth Scientists. Journal of Geoscience Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2023.2246346
Smith, C. R., Menon, D., ^Wierzbicki, A., Dauer, J. M. (2023). Exploring STEM Teaching Assistants Self-efficacy and its Relation to Approaches to Teaching. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 22(1). 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.22-06-0115
Areas of Expertise:
K-16 Science Teacher Education (including preservice elementary and in-service science teacher education)
Science Teaching Self-efficacy and Identity
Mobile technologies in Science Education